Box 9
Contains 250 Results:
Item 134: Spinning Mule
Trade card from the Arbuckle Brothers Coffee Company. [no later than 1889]
Format: Trade card.
Item 135: Cotton Spinning, England
Black and white image shows a spinning room in an unidentified cotton mill in England, with two male workers at mule spinning frames. A mule is a type of spinning frame that has an intermittent action. Image is overexposed and in poor condition. [no earlier than 1902] 14 x 9 cm.
Format: Postcard.
Item 136: One of the vast (mule) spinning rooms in the Cotton Mills, Adams, Mass., 1909
Black and white image shows hundreds of rows of mule spinning frames in an unidentified cotton mill in Adams, Mass. One man is visible in the foreground at the machinery. A mule is a type of spinning frame that has an intermittent action. Chicago, Ill.: H.C. White Co. 18 x 8.5 cm.
Format: Stereoptic print.
Item 137: Spinning Room, Mechanics Mill, Fall River, Mass.
Littleton, New Hampshire: Photographed and published by Kilburn Bros., ca. 1875-1885. Gelatin silver print. Black and white image depicts the spinning room at Mechanics Mill in Fall River, showing rows and rows of spinning machinery. No employees visible. 17 x 8.25 cm.
Format: Stereoptic print.
Item 138: Mule Room, Granite Mills No. 2, Fall River, Mass.
Stereoscopic Views, made and for sale, wholesale and retail, by Joseph W. Warren, No. 2 High Street, Fall River, Mass., ca. 1880s. Gelatin silver print. Black and white image shows rows of mule spinning machinery in Granite Mills. Two men barely visible on extreme right. Foreground is blurry. 17.75 x 8.75 cm.
Format: Stereoptic print.
Item 139: Mule Room, Stevens & Co.'s Woolen Mills
Haverhill, Mass.: Anderson, ca. 1890. Gelatin silver print. Black and white image shows two rows of mules in the Stevens & Co. mill in Haverhill, Mass. (formerly known as the Haverhill Flannel Factory). A mule is a type of spinning frame, usually used for spinning wool. 17.75 x 10 cm.
Format: Stereoptic print.
Item 140: Mule Spinning, Saco Water Power Machine Shop, Biddeford, Maine
ca. 1880. Information appears on sign in photograph. Image shows mule spinning machinery on left and right; male workers appear in center background next to machines. Mule spinners were always male. 17.5 x 9 cm.
Format: Stereoptic print.
Item 141: Eight mule spinners in an unknown British mill
Black and white image shows eight teenage boys posing in front of a row of mule spinning frames. The boys are barefooted; most mule spinners were male and worked without shoes. [no earlier than 1902] 14 x 8.75 cm.
Format: Postcard.
Item 142: Mule Room, unidentified mill
Black and white image shows two rows of mule spinning frames in an unidentified mill. "Mule Room No. 3 mill" is pencilled on the reverse, but what company and location is unknown. ca. 1870. 17.75 x 10 cm.
Format: Stereoptic print.
Item 143: Mule Room, Washington Mills, Lawrence, Mass.
A. B. Hamor. View of the mules, or yarn-spinning machines in the Washington Mills. 17.5 x 10 cm.
Format: Stereoptic print.